Mike Rifino

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Michael

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Rifino

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Mike Rifino is a first-year doctoral student in Human Development at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Drawing on cultural-historical activity theory and recent advances in Vygotskian scholarship, specifically, Stetsenko’s notion of Transformative Activist Stance, his research interests focus on the transformative potential of critical theoretical teaching-learning in public secondary and post-secondary education in regard to student agency. Throughout his undergraduate journey, he has gained deep experience with peer mentoring, having worked as a research assistant for the Peer Activist Learning Community (PALC), as well as a mentor for a college readiness program for underrepresented students. He is currently researching ways how students and faculty in PALC collaboratively investigate and redefine student agency to create an activist learning community.

Wednesday, April 26 | 5 PM to 7:30 PM EDT, The Graduate Center, Room 9206 | RSVP As a continuation of our recent University Worth Fighting For event titled, "Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education," we contend that such efforts must not only be theoretical and limited to the...

Description Join faculty and graduate students from this year’s team-taught courses, Futures Initiative Peer Mentors, and the Humanities Alliance for this daylong symposium celebrating the work that connects student-centered learning to institutional and social change. Program 10:00 - 10:10 |...

Dr. Marion Thain Global Liberal Studies and English, FAS, NYU Associate Director of Digital Humanities, NYU (Twitter: @DistractedRead) Central to the humanities is the theorisation and practice of modes of attention (to cultural artifacts and to other aspects of the world). Indeed, many of us...